![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly before the story begins, a melee has occurred on an icy plain. Conan is a young warrior traveling in a war party of the Aesir, a barbarian people inspired on the main gods of Norse mythology. The brief tale is set in frozen Nordheim, geographically situated north of Conan's homeland, Cimmeria. "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is the earliest chronological story by Robert E. It was not published in its original form in Howard's lifetime. Rejected as a Conan story by Weird Tales magazine editor Farnsworth Wright, Howard changed the main character's name to "Amra of Akbitana" and retitled the piece as " The Gods of the North", as which it was published in the March 1934 issue of The Fantasy Fan. The story is set in the fictional history of the Hyborian Age and details Conan pursuing a spectral nymph across the frozen tundra of Nordheim. ![]() ![]() " The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is one of the original fantasy short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. An interior panel of the Conan #2 (collected in The Frost-Giant's Daughter and Other Stories, Volume 1, 2005) comic adaptation by Kurt Busiek featuring the art of Cary Nord and Thomas Yeates. ![]()
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